Northern Indiana

Before having the motor home serviced at Newmar in Nappanee, IN, where it was built, we spent a week visiting museums and surrounding Amish countryside. The Studebaker Museum in South Bend was interesting since Studebaker went from manufacturing wagons to automobiles. In the first 2 years that Studebaker manufactured cars they were actually electric. Studebaker had quite an impact on Northern Indiana. Oliver Museum and Mansion gave an insight on how the wealthy lived in the 1890's. Oliver invented the process for hardening cast iron. The plow that he manufactured had an impact on the opening of farming in the mid-west and west. The plow had a hard face and a soft back in order to take the rugged work during plowing. It is always a joy to visit the Amish craft shops and countryside here as well. We had some great food but could not always allow ourselves to eat that plentiful all of the time.

We got to visit with Sue's friend, Maura, who is now a professor at Notre Dame and Sue knew when Maura was at Holy Cross. Her husband, Paul, was off on a business trip in Sweden and also is a professor at Notre Dame. Their twin daughters, Meggie and Annie, who are 9 years old had grown a foot since when saw them in the spring of 07. They had us over for dinner and it was a very nice visit. We got the slide on our motor home repaired at the Newmar facility and were on the road once again.